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Whats the difference between being transgender or transsexual and having an intersex condition?

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Whats the difference between being transgender or transsexual and having an intersex condition?

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People who identify as transgender or transsexual are usually people who are born with typical male or female anatomies but feel as though they’ve been born into the “wrong body.” For example, a person who identifies as transgender or transsexual may have typical female anatomy but feel like a male and seek to become male by taking hormones or electing to have sex reassignment surgeries. People who have intersex conditions have anatomy that is not considered typically male or female. Most people with intersex conditions come to medical attention because __doctors or parents notice something unusual about their bodies__. In contrast, people who are transgendered __have an internal experience of gender identity__ that is different from most people. Many people confuse transgender and transsexual people with people with intersex conditions because they see two groups of people who would like to choose their own gender identity and sometimes those choices require hormonal treatments and/or

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